What Time Is It on Sesame Street?


Songs from	Sesame Street
Released	1977
Format	LP
Label	Sesame Street Records
Cat no.	CTW 25517

WhatTimeIsIt-Gatelfold — Gatefold spread from the record.

WhatTimeIsIt-Clock — The clock that came with the album.

WhatTimeIsIt-Sleeve — The inner sleeve the record came in.

What Time Is It On Sesame Street? is a concept album that talks about different times of the day, and what people do at those times. It was released with a gatefold sleeve, the inside of which consisted of a collage of photographs showing people doing all kinds of activities, with a little picture of a clock inside each photo, showing what time it would be. The album also included an insert of a cardboard clock with movable plastic hands. The record also had an inner sleeve with the words, "What time is it?", and pictures of 12 clocks, showing 1:00 through 12:00. The album was written, composed and produced entirely by Jeff Moss.

Track listing[]

Side One

Good Morning - Bob and Marylou
Breakfast Time - Ernie and Cookie Monster
How Do You Get from Here to There? - The Anything Muppets
Clean-Up Time - Bob and Oscar the Grouch
The People in Your Neighborhood - Bob and The Anything Muppets
Lunchtime - Big Bird

Side Two

Naptime - Ernie and Bert
Children in the Playground - Bob
Sound Song - Simon Soundman
I'm Gonna Build the Biggest House You've Ever Seen - Grover
What Do You Have For Dinner? - Marylou
Rubber Duckie - Ernie
See You Tomorrow - Bob

Notes[]

While most of these songs are new, two classic songs from The Sesame Street Book & Record also appear, although they are slightly different. "The People in Your Neighborhood" is a new version, featuring Bob talking to a grocer and a shoemaker. "Rubber Duckie" is the original recording, but there is an added introduction by Bert, wondering where Ernie is, and then noticing that it's 6:00, and that there's only one place Ernie could be at that time.
Despite the fact that Prairie Dawn appears on the album cover, another girl named Marylou appears on the album itself, with no appearance from Prairie Dawn whatsoever. Like Prairie Dawn, Marylou is voiced by Fran Brill.

Cast[]

Bob McGrath as Bob
Frank Oz as Bert, Cookie Monster and Grover
Jim Henson as Ernie
Fran Brill as Marylou
Carroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
Jerry Nelson as Simon Soundman
with Richard Hunt

Credits[]

Music, lyrics and continuity written and produced by Jeffrey Moss
Musical director: Jim Timmens
Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
Engineering by Frank Laico and Don Young
Musical arrangements by Dave Conner and Jeffrey Moss
Associate producer: Geri Van Rees
Project supervisor: Arthur Shimkin
Project director: Sharon Lerner
Project coordinator: Debbie Kovacs
Art director: Robert Pierce
Cover photography: Neil Selkirk
Collage created by Penny Ekstein
Collage photography by R. J. Cass, Jr.
Executive producer of Sesame Street: Jon Stone
Musicians: Robert Alexander, Dave Conner, Bob Cranshaw, Mel Davis, Danny Epstein, Wally Kane, Steve Little, Jim Mitchell, Jim Timmens and David Tofani